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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1953
Page
19
A health column urges overweight men to lose pounds through diet and activity. It warns of reduced mobility and calls quarterly or annual exams essential. The piece offers a three day menu plan and promotes a home diet kit by Josephine Lowman via the Press-Telegram.
AP News features writer Cynthia Lowry notes signs that the Conversion Craze era wanes as households abandon transformed furniture and vintage pieces. She recalls 1960s totemic trends like coffee tables from old frames and repurposed mirrors, and observes a shift toward unaltered, practical use of furniture and appliances.
Shelley Heath daughter of Ronald W Heath pledges Kappa Alpha Theta at the University of Arizona. A Chadwick School graduate from Rolling Hills she is a freshman. The piece also notes shifts in American furniture trends from antiquing to natural wood finishes and lamplight collecting to fruit-wood snobbery.
A survey shows housewives spend about one year washing dishes, with only 3 percent of American families owning dishwashers. Ann Miller advises grouping similar dishes, scraping waste, stacking, using hot water and detergent, and pouring slowly to build thick suds for efficient cleaning. Freddie Freeman and Mrs. Freeman visited friends, while Breeman prepared for Ringling Bros. Circus in Long Beach.
A pastor requests guidance on resources to answer children's religious questions up to adolescence. The responder recommends Florence Fitch's One God The Ways We Worship Him and urges teaching respect for different faiths. Readers can request reading matter with a self address stamped envelope and address questions to Beulah France for child care help.
The Long Beach Folk Dance Co operative hosted a Thursday dance at Knott's Berry Farm with costumes from many nations. Chairman Vern Bowman presided. attendees included Virgil Mc Dougle Marilyn Bowman Jack Hedgecock Jack Bellot Dorothy Seeley Oliver Seeley Marion Wells Tam Kindig Eddie Kindig Margaret Jenkins Le Kutulas Jean Marcus Mary Anderson Vern Bowman and Genelie Howard.
The condensed 29 page excerpt of Charles A Lindberghs autobiography presents the New York to Paris flight tale and Lindberghs youth exploits. It promises an adventurous, pulsating American memoir and highlights Reader’s Digest October issue featuring this condensation among other magazine extracts.
A home style note describes Broiled Topping Hawaiian Style to adorn a baked cake with drained pineapple slices. It outlines a pre dinner browned sugar topping with brown sugar flour and butter and a jelly center for each slice, then broiling briefly to finish.
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